Francesca Paola di Mare was born in Neaples, Italy, in 1973. In 1996 she  obtained a Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Neaples „Federico II“ with honours. During the last year of her undergradate studies, she started working on turbulent combustion and in 2003 she obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and the Diploma of Membership of Imperial College at Imperial College London, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
From 1997 to 2004 she has worked with Prof. Bill Jones at Imperial College on turbulent combustion modelling, where she gave a substantial contribution to the development of the in-house CFD code BOFFIN . In 2004 she started working as Development Engineer at CD-Adapco, where she was responsible for the assessment, implementation and validation of advanced physical models for turbulent reacting flows in the STAR-CD  and STAR-CCM+ CFD solvers and, also, for the design and enforcement of programming standards and testing procedures and for providing support and technical/scientific advice for consultancy and strategic pre-sales projects.
In 2009 she moved to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Köln, where she is now responsible for the development of the Reacting Flows module in the turbomachinery CFD code TRACE.
Her research interests cover Tubulent Combustion Modelling, High -Temperature Gasdynamics, Supersonic Combustion.
She serves as Reviewer for the SAE conference series, for the Combustion Institute and for various scientific Journals. In 2009 she has served on the International Advisory Committee for the  FVV-Arbeitskreises ”Numerischer Simulation CAI” (Germany) and for the SFB-686 (Germany).
In 2005 she won, with S. Navarro-Martinez and A. Kronenburg, the Sugden Prize, awarded by the British Section of the Combustion Institute for the most significant contribution to combustion research of the year.
She is a member of the German Section of the Combustion Institute and Senior Member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

Publications

Journal

[1] F. di Mare, W. P. Jones, and K. R. Menzies. Large Eddy Simulation of a Model Gas Turbine Combustor. Combustion and Flame, 137:278–294, 2004.

[2] S. Navarro-Martinez, A. Kronenburg, and F. di Mare. Conditional Moment Closure for Large Eddy Simulation. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 75:245–274, 2005.

Conferences

[3]F. di Mare and W. P. Jones. Large eddy simulation of the vortex shedding process in the near-field wake behind a square cylinder. In Proceedings of HPCI Conference, London, 1998. Plenum.

[4] F. di Mare and W.P. Jones. LES of Sandia flame D. In 4th International Workshop on Measurements and computation of Turbulent Nonpremixed Flames, 1999. Proceedings available from http://www.ca.sandia.gov/tdf/.

[5] F. di Mare and W.P. Jones. Large Eddy Simulation of a turbulent partially premixed piloted flame (Sandia flame D). In Proceedings of the ECCOMAS 2001 CFD Conference, Swansea, Wales, September 2001.

[6] F. di Mare and W.P. Jones. Large Eddy Simulation of rotor-stator interaction in an axial flow turbine. In Proceedings of the WEHSFF Conference, Marseilles, France, April 2002.

[7]B. Böhm, F. Di Mare and A. Dreizler. Characterisation of cyclic variability in an optically accessible IC Engine by means of phase-independent POD. In Proceedings LES4ICE, Paris, November 2010.

[8]F. Di Mare, D. Goryntsev and J. Janicka. LES of the flow in a DISI engine: analysis of turbulent scalar – velocity correlations. In Proceedings LES4ICE, Paris, November 2010.

Invited Lectures and Seminars

[9]F. di Mare and W. P. Jones. Large Eddy Simulation of reacting and non-reacting turbulent flows in complex geometries. poster session, EPSRC Theme Day in High Performance Computing, Birmingham, UK, February 1999.

[10] F. di Mare. Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent non-premixed flames. Invited Lecture, Theme Day in Dynamics, Analysis and Simulation of Reacting Systems, Universita’ del Sannio, Benevento, Italy, June 1999.

[11] F. di Mare. Large Eddy Simulation of partially premixed TU-Darmstadt/Sandia turbulent hydrocarbon piloted flame D. Finalist, 1st Weinberg Prize, British Gas Research Centre, Loughborough, UK, September 1999.

[11] F. di Mare. Heat transfer in a gas turbine combustion chamber. LES-UK Combustion Consortium meeting, Imperial College, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, London, UK, July 2001.

[12] F. di Mare. Large Eddy Simulation of reacting and non-reacting turbulent flows in complex geometries. Invited Lecture, TU-Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, November 2001.

[13] F. di Mare. LES of a gas turbine combustor - prediction of the velocity field. LECT Workshop on Instabilities - Stuttgart, Germany, December 2001.

[14] F. di Mare. LES of a gas turbine combustor. The Combustion Institute - British Section Autumn Research Meeting, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK, September 2002.

[15] F. di Mare. Large Eddy Simulation of an IP gas turbine stage. LES-UK Consortium meeting, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, November 2002.

[16] F. di Mare. Mid-term MOLECULES meeting. CERFACS-Toulouse, France, April2003.

[17]F. di Mare. Large Eddy Simulation of a gas turbine combustor. Finalist, 1st Osborne Reynolds Prize, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK, May 2003.

[18] F. di Mare. Kick-off INTELLECT D.M. meeting. Rolls-Royce Deutschland, Berlin, Germany, January 2004.

[19]F. di Mare. LES for industrial applications: an overview. CD-adapco, Product Development Committee Meeting, October 2008.

[20] F. di Mare. LES modelling for IC Engines in STAR-CD v4. CD-adapco, IC Engine Day, February 2009.

Other publications

[21] F. di Mare, W. P. Jones, and A. J. Marquis. LES-BOFFIN: Users’s Guide, 2002.

[22]F. di Mare. Radiative heat transfer: an overview. Technical report, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London, 2002.

[23]F. di Mare. Large Eddy Simulation of reacting and non-reacting turbulent flows. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London, 2002.